(1709) Evening all. Wet and windy outside around here.

 

26. Xfriend Deryl wrote

“I have a roof leak and obviously the roofer doesn’t want to come back out in rain . He came yesterday but only made it worse . Am currently in loft stuffing rafters with absorbent material until it finally stops raining.”

I replied:

“Deryl, I hadn’t quite latched onto us being in a storm. True the rain started coming in through the roof … put out a tub … then the kitchen window blew open. Uh huh. A bit windy, thought I. Are we in a storm?”

Slowthinking day today. Um … er … do you have some wind and rain where you are?

25. Snippet

Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi both worked at Ballard Partners, a prominent lobbying firm with pharmaceutical clients including Pfizer.

24. So much for a formal, hierarchical church

23. The Ukraine Madrid connection

https://substack.com/home/post/p-178867522

22. Digital ID

21. Steve corner

Hearts of Oak at 1203: Dr Bradley Thayer – Identity Under Siege: The Trump Call to Counter Radical Ideologies

War Room at 1203:

• Mark Mitchell: An Entire Generation Has Been Priced Out Of The American Dream. The Right Kept Repeating “They’ll Never Choose Socialism,” But They’re Starting To Because The GOP Never Delivered
• Mark Mitchell: Remember The “Christmas Massacre” Of 2024 When The Youth Rejected Ramaswamy’s Defense Of The Indian Work Culture? Americans Aren’t Lazy Or Stupid; They’ve Been Sold Out
• Charlie’s Kirk’s Plan for Revival: 1 – Mass Deportations 2 – Stop The H-1B Scam 3 – Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration 4 – End Chain Migration And The Visa Lottery 5 – Build 10 Million Homes For Americans 6 – Crush The College Cartel
• Richard Baris: One of the GOP’s Biggest Problems? Donors Fund Cocktail Parties, Not Ground Games. Democrats Write Checks To Win. Republicans Write Them To Network
• Claire Dooley: The World We’re Building With MAHA Is One Of Science, Not Censorship. We Don’t Silence Voices; We Win With Stronger Arguments
• Natalie Winters: US Army Funded Research At China’s Top Semiconductor Lab Targeting America’s Chip Dominance

 

Better late than never? Judge for yourself.

“This noir B thriller from 20th Century Fox shows the temptations that the police are under. William Gargan stars and plays a doggedly honest cop who has a homicide literally dropped on his doorstep at the precinct headquarters. It’s almost like someone was taunting the cops to solve this one.

The victim in Behind Green Lights was a seedy private detective who had a nice sideline in blackmail and no one really is going to mourn his passing. But the case is loaded with political implications because Carole Landis, daughter of the reform candidate for mayor was seen leaving the victim’s apartment.

The largest newspaper in town is supporting the current administration and Roy Roberts says that the easiest thing in the world for Gargan to do to advance his career is pick up Landis and book her. At least until the election is over which will be in a few days. Something about Roberts sticks in Gargan’s craw. He could easily justify holding Landis and helping his career, but he won’t do it.

There’s a nice array of suspects and by definition performances. There are two keys here, a very sleazy medical examiner played by Don Beddoe and a bag lady played by Mabel Paige. Between the two of them the real story comes out.

Behind Green Lights bears no small resemblance to Detective Story in structure. Most of the action takes place in the police station. This film is nicely paced with a few good comic touches. I can’t mention them because they are within the plot structure and not just added on. This noir film is a good one to check out.”

(1328) Afternoon all … well wasn’t that knitting fun!

 

20. Gates of Budapest

19. Kamikaze bike bombing?

18. Germany wants war

… will they invade Poland first … or the Sudetenland? North Minehead?

17. Tina Peters again

16. We might have had this one before

 

Sorry to get this to you so late, boys … knitting needles ready? Then we’ll begin:

Truth is, I’ve been through quite a journey to even find this lady … the Swedish lady knitter I’ve never posted I tried to thirty minutes ago and she’s disabled embedding so that’s her gone.

So I started going through all these knitting vlogs and discovered so many horrors … yes, dear reader, I bullsh you not … horrors! Now I never had this with crocheters … they seem to be more upmarket in the gentility stakes. The crocheter I used to go to was Daisy but in this one, she put herself in the vlogframe and it … er … cough … did not seem appropriate for our male heavy readership.

So I started looking at knitters. The number with bones through the nose, multicoloured wokeleft hair and all sorts hanging off their faces was offputting … one even seemed mutilated.

Eventually, the only one I could sit through was this lady above … no offputting head extensions, nor offputting noise (“music”) plus the English accent was quite different to the flood of American and European knitters.

Now, there were one or two men knitters … possibly quite acceptable chaps for the ladies, not knocking them, but it didn’t float my boat, nor I think … our readers.

So it was by no means straightforward.

10 minutes later … checked out this lady … was puzzled by her calling it Fall instead of Autumn … nothing on her profile page but there was a (she/her pronoun … oh dear no) … there was also an Instagram link … it’s not Victoria at all bt Wiktoria … no idea where from. Poland?

Hmmmm, sounds a bit Essex at times, sometimes Aussie (“wanna”), think she’s eastern European because of the name and also the good RP quite often … the ESL teachers do try to linguistically get students as close to RP as they can.

(0756) Morning all … went back to bed, am restarting the day now. Ooo, lovely drizzle out there. (0904)

 

15. Moosh corner

14. AJ Roberts

“Why do you think ALL the police commissioner roles are being dissolved? How many of them actively know about grooming gangs, the who’s who on the payroll at a minimum. It’s a lot easier on the public eye to make them all redundant than arrest them en masse and put the frighteners in the minions that they control. Although there’s going to be some very nervous people in these establishments. Watch new revelations come out daily now. The Art of War – EO 13818 in full swing!”

13. Spotlight on Susan Wiles again

Tiffany Cianci is the second person this week to allege that Susie Wiles has crushed MAHA.

“She was a huge lobbyist and negotiated all of Pfizer’s demands during Covid.”

“To pacify the donor base, [Susie Wiles said] we’re going to give Bobby Kennedy HHS, we’re going to plant a… pic.twitter.com/xn71PayxEf

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) November 13, 2025

12. The House of the Rising Sun

No, I’m not running The Animals’ iconic version yet again but I did explore the history of the song on youtube … which was most interesting … all about Alan Lomax, Dylan, other versions and it traced the song back to 1937, 1934, with references in the 1860s and early 1900s …

… but then if you go to the Wiki entry, it broadens it to Britain and Europe and goes back centuries. That’s when I could see no great percentage in pursuing it as a standalone post, except for some curious asides along the way.

Alan Lomax’s father was heavily involved in Americana, became involved with The Library of Congress on that score … but … and it’s a big butt … he was also fired and blacklisted for being an out and out communist (post war McCarthy’s time). A communist concerned with Americana?

Also throw in Pete Seeger, ultraleftist, with the song ITHOTRS and it gets murkier. Go back even further to Papa Lomax teaching at university in Texas but the governor of the state firing him and others, only for the governor to be impeached and sacked, only for his wife to become governor and Lonax teaching again at university … and the story broadens.

And what of the song? Well if you have a female singer, female version, it means one from a brothel … but if a male version, then a den of iniquity … booze, gambling … the stuff of legendary folk ditties.

My feeling is that for centuries, so many people used it for their own purposes, framed the way they wanted.

So I shan’t run a standalone post on it. ☺️

11. Po plach o n’yom

That’s transliteration of the Russian song by the group Chaif (USSR dissident, iconic Uke/Russ musical band) from decades ago and the extended line says: “Cry for him while he’s still alive, rather than after his dead.” It’s an “ochen narodni” song, meaning a real heartland song there, as you can see from the concert in their latter years, with a new youth following.

One of the lines, in fact the opening few words of the song, the chorus in fact, are: “Za’chem teb’ye znat?” which roughly translates as “for what for you to know” or “why know”?

And that question is the one I ask myself often, especially as we bring you the collected grim world news in an effort to stay up to speed as a news service but also to delve, go down rabbit holes, in order to get to the truth. Somehow, it seems, like Tina Peters, that we must.

So there are all the normies and wokerati out there, quite oblivious to the truth, they know many are unhappy with things, they blame “far right malcontents” for stirring things up, not accepting the narrative to oblivion. After all, the Beloved Leader has said the far right are the enemies of the state.

So I ask the question yet again … zachem tebye znat? For what purpose for you to know? Why upset you, reader, when you can head for oblivion oblivious, like cattle to the slaughter?

And a perfect example is that, in the light of a recent post in which I ask just how aware people are that they’re about to be slaughtered … along came the 10th anniversary of Bataclan, yesterday.

https://nypost.com/2016/07/15/horrifying-details-of-the-bataclan-theatre-massacre-revealed

There are all sorts of warnings people neither see nor heed.

So that question again … za chem tebye znat?

 

(0551)(0621)

 

10. Our totally unbiased Aunty remembered

9. Is this what is planned?

8. The ghosts of Sonny Bono, Vince Foster

… Gary Webb, Lawrie MacDonald, David Kelly and others wish Sen Fetterman well.

7. Of course the US was heavily involved in the Ukrainian coup

… and after that, start looking at Biden and the CCP.

Remember that moment when Victoria Nuland in 2016, was openly bragging to Congress about how the US practically colonized Ukraine after the 2014 coup?

She didn’t even try to sugarcoat it: 12 US advisors shoved into Ukrainian ministries, American-trained cops in 18 cities, the US… pic.twitter.com/8jgu0unDd1

— Richard (@ricwe123) November 13, 2025

6. No men in women-only spaces

… very simple principle.

(0456)(0531)

 

5. Shapiro

This one’s not dying away. Why would Shapiro speak of EK murdering CK? My first thought is that, by definition, it separates her from the Z***ist lobby and A*P*C. Therefore Christian. My stance is that I don’t know and could not know. However, I can surmise about double and triple crosses. By accusing EK on MK casts her into Team CK which, if she is Z***ist lobby, is an effective way of fooling people on a national show.

Once more … I simply cannot know, nor can most of our readers, I surmise.

4. The blocked drains scandal

3. DAD at 1202

a) Jihad in France. From Paris to the small church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, passing by the supermarket in Trèbes or by the middle school in Bois d’Aulne, the assiduous observer of French fractures looks back…..

b) Ten years after the most horrific Jihad…..On Thursday, November 13, France paid tribute to the 132 victims of the Paris attacks, ten years later, with…..

c) Three men were arrested on November 8, 2025, at Nantes Airport (Loire-Atlantique), while attempting to travel to Canada with fake passports and silicone masks.

d) The slow death of the German Christmas Market. Is Germany surrendering one of its best-loved festive traditions to violent extremists?

2. Tina Peters

First the latest:

Why Colorado Is Violating Its Own Constitution by Keeping a Dying Tina Peters Behind Bars

This is a clear case of people in charge v an individual who had been an official in the election process but then whistleblew. The wiki entry is the state’s case, talking of “conspiracy theories” about missing boxes of ballots in Mesa County and tampered with voting machines … it’s the one involving Jena Griswold.

During the proceedings, her son, a paratrooper, died when his parachute failed to open, making her a “Gold Star mom”. Yet she’s in prison for nine years for tampering with election machines and hiding proof of election stealing.

Donald Trump has “ordered” her released on compassionate grounds but nothing has happened. It’s like a Pammy indictment or promise. She was not one of those pardoned the other day. The issue from her side is that she has categorical proof and is intractable on it, even more so now.

1. Steve at 1202

• Clinton Body Count: Epstein Email to Disgraced Journalist Alleges Hillary Had Sexual Affair with ‘Suicided’ Vince Foster
• American B-2 Stealth Bomber Fleet and a CCP-Linked Trailer Park, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• ‘Mindich’s Schemes Are Zelensky’s Schemes’: Corruption Scandal Shakes Ukraine
• Foreign Visa Seekers With Costly Medical Conditions Like Diabetes and Obesity May Be Denied Entry Under New Directive
• [The] Ukraine Rocked; Russia Smashes Through Zaporozhye Kupiansk Mirnograd; Corruption Crisis Engulfs Kiev
• Why have so few doctors dared to tell the truth about Covid and its vaccines?
• The BBC’s Delusional Belief in its Objectivity
• Much more.

(1709) Evening all.

 

21. Running out of steam, readers, for tonight

… but one issue I’ve saved some X text on is this secret thing Senators snuck in paying themselves millions in order to lift the shutdown. Exact details are best read at Last Refuge for now.

20. Another where the foreign language is not necessarily a barrier

… not completely anyway. You know what her views are, retweeted by Kassandra, she writes of Bruesseler Buerokratie, then EU-Superstaat. Think you get the idea.

19. Moosh corner

18. The cloven hoof pops out

17. EU “honesty”

16. Redaction issue with the X links (Steve’s comment)

If you’re on X, no issue … just click the links. If you’re not, then there is an issue this time … it’s quite fragmented and involves mixed media. It’s on the topic of DJT. In one, some man is having a TDS fit about DJT and some girls, in another, Crockett has no idea what she’s talking about on CNN, such that they pull her up on her “facts”.

The Demonrats are going all out, just after the end of the shutdown, to say the redacted name in an accusation about topless girls was DJT. It was not so and the best way I can put it is to grab one screenshot, which is of Virginia G:

There was also this:

In October 2016, so-called journalist Michael Wolff was conspiring with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to “finish” Trump. A few months later, Wolff was granted several months of all-access privileges in the Trump White House. Make it make sense.

JH: The thing which is puzzling so many in MAGA is DJT’s lack of judgement about snakes purporting to be his friend, from McCarthy to Bolton. The only explanation I can see is SJT’s blanket view that he meets everyone as honest until they prove they’re not. Much, much later. After many, many chances.

But these are not other businessmen, they are agents on a mission to take him down. By definition, they are dishonest, otherwise they’re not representing their paymasters properly. One I don’t trust is Bessent, while Rubio is a neocon.

War Room at 1202:

• Bannon: Corporate America Always Finds A Workaround. Cheaper Labor, No Benefits, No Loyalty. If You Want To Thank Our Veterans, Don’t Just Say It; Hire Americans. Protect Their Families, Their Jobs, And Their Future
• Ryan Neuhaus: Young Conservatives Aren’t Buying The Old Playbook. They Want America To Be Affordable Again. Families, Faith, And A future. Not Just Talking Points
• Ryan Kennedy: Kids’ Data Is Sold To The Highest Bidder, And Their Minds Are Shaped By Chatbots. Parents Must Have Control: Opt-In Consent, Age Verification, And Bans On Under-18 Chatbot Use
• Natalie Winters: America Was A Great Country And Was The Leading In Technological Innovation Long Before The H-1B Program Was Ever Around
• Mark Mitchell: Donald Trump Is Now Polling Under 40% With Voters Under 30 Years Old
• Brian Harrison On The Texas University System Being Flooded With H-1B Visa Workers

 

Not to be confused with some mid 80s Brother Louie thing, first came El loco cha cha:

Not difficult to see how Richard Berry (1957) worked that into his own song about a man wanting to return to his Caribbean darling by boat:

Fine little girl she waits for me
Me catch the ship for cross the sea
I sail the ship all alone
I never think me make it home

Three nights and days me sail the sea
Me think of girl constantly
On the ship I dream she there
I smell the rose in her hair

Me see Jamaica moon above
It won’t be long, me see my love
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again

He’s probably drunk, telling the barman, Louie, about his pining for this girl, maybe all Jamaican girls. If just one, this is one very romantic song, and with him being from the Louisiana area, with a doo wop background, I can feel that pining … I did myself, only I went by air.

Poor guy, bad choices, being ripped off, he missed out on $millions$ until long after The Kingsmen … it was finally rectified to a point.

Now The Kingsmen (1963), white boys from Portland, Oregon, and there was quite a story in it even being recorded. They had access to a studio for an hour, there were disputes over who’d sing, who’d drum, strings were pulled above, the drums overwhelmed the vocals, the drummer dropped a stick midway (you can hear the expletive), the singer and band miscued after the instrumental … it was a most amateurish job and yet … and yet … the untrained voice, the time in rock history when The Yardbirds were around, the way white boys were always a chance to go viral … there was every chance this cranked up version with the howled vocals would be a megahit.

And it was. My thoughts are I like all three versions in the post … quite different in many ways, all holding their own to my mind, The Kingsmen version maybe having the edge … it’s now a staple … one reactor to it scrolled down through the bands and singers who have covered it, including marching bands … it’s quite iconic:

Had to smile at this comment:

Certainly doesn’t. It’s real fratboy stuff and the singer, Jack Ely, made a meal out of the slurred verses, which you can read above. Then the FBI hit three houses looking for the obscene lyrics … absolutely fab publicity, the young people loved it all. Radio stations pulled it from airplay … the Streisand effect set in.

Yep, I love the song, especially as it’s about love pined for, nothing untoward unless you want it to be. But the number of reactors on YT who had simply not done their homework was astounding. Plus the blacks in general did not like the calypso rhythm. Interesting.

In 1972, through Toots and the Maytalls, the first really professional reggae version came out and it’s the goods all right. I especially like the underwater bubble guitar ending … this is the most genuine version for that culture to my mind but I still like the other versions too.